It’s not even officially Summer yet and the mercury has already topped 100 degrees for a solid week.
ELV is glad the days are heating up, because that’s the only thing that’s hot in Vegas these days.
Our restaurant scene may seem muy caliente to some — with Daniel Boulud, Guy Fieri, Mathias Merges and Giada What’s-Her-Name all opening new joints in the last two months — but it’s still pretty boring with a capital “B” from where we’re sitting.
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“Is it practical?” asked the Food Gal®.
“It isn’t supposed to be practical,” replied ELV, “it’s supposed to be awesome.”
Joël Robuchon’s coming to Vegas in 2005, was, according to then-Gourmet magazine’s then-editor Ruth Reichl “…the single most important event in American gastronomy in the past 50 years.” ELV obviously agreed and devoted two commentaries/reviews (on Sept. 22 and 29, 2005) to his restaurants, that you can listen to by clicking here and here, if you want to hear about the event in the mellifluous, sonorous, sententious and senatorial tones for which he was known.